There was a time when John McCain had positions. Then he ran for president, and everything was suddenly up for grabs.
Comment: continued...
but the pro-choice advocates who equate abortion rights with our constitutional rights are making me sick. And let me just say this. For 20 of the past 28 years, we have had a pro-life president. Abortion is still legal is
it not? I really don't see how the abortion issue is worth choosing our president by.
Comment: >found a constitutional right to abortion.
You mean the one that doesn't exist? Your article is called Once upon a Principle. What about the principle of judges not letting their personal views interfere with their decision on what the Constitution says? I am pro-choice with reservations, but the pro-choice who equates abortion rights with our rights of free thought
Comment: Give it a rest Quindlen. Your usually partisan lens[left of center],refuses to see that the game is played with equal ferocity on both sides. An ''evolving''Republican will get just as pounded by the Democrat as vice versa. You forget that Obama was ''for''Justice Roberts before he was ''against''him. That Hillary was ''for''immediate Iraq withdrawl before she was ''against''it,and before she was ''for''it again. That policy makers of both parties were ''for''Ethanol before they were ''against ''it,and are ''for ''it again,to be ''against''it next week. This is hardly a portion of a McCain. Remember Pelosis ''road to peace''in Syria? I think the North Koreans have something to say regarding this right about now. How about the ''New Era''? The ''draining of the swamp''after the Democrat takeover? Business as usual reigns,with yet another fatcat Farm Bill of hundreds of billions in the offing even though farms are having it better than they have in decades. We could do this all day. With McCain,sure. But ALSO with the others,and those of both parties.
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: AmBUSHED by Hillary
Hillary's dubious principles should be challenged also. Her distinction for advocating nuclear response to imaginary Iranian capabilities, may very well be her approach to global warming. Suddenly everywhere up for obliteration!
Barry Goldwater LOST the election for suggesting the nuclear bombing of Vietnam to resolve that conflict.
The modern holocaust may be perpetrated by Hillary's annihilation of suspected WMD in "axis" countries of her own determination. Considering the reliability of our nuclear allies (i.e. Pakistan), she perpetuates our country's status in this world of conflict.
She apparently can harmonize with McStrangelove - "Bomb,bomb,bomb.."
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaah!!!
Comment: McFlip McFlop McSame McCain
Keating Five
The Keating Five (or Keating Five Scandal) refers to a Congressional scandal related to the collapse of most of the Savings and Loan institutions in the United States in the late 1980s.
After deregulation of the banking industry in the 1980s, savings and loan associations (also known as thrifts) got the flexibility to invest their depositors' funds in commercial real estate. Many savings and loan associations began making risky investments. As a result, the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, the federal agency that regulates the industry, tried to clamp down on the trend. However, the FHLBB clashed with the Reagan administration, whose policy was deregulation, including the thrift industry. The administration declined to submit budgets to Congress that would request funding for the FHLBB's regulatory efforts.
In 1989, the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association of Irvine, Calif., collapsed. Lincoln's chairman, Charles H. Keating Jr., was faulted for the thrift's failure. Keating, however, told the House Banking Committee that the FHLBB and its former chief Edwin J. Gray were pursuing a vendetta against him. Gray testified that several U.S. senators had approached him and requested that he ease off on the Lincoln investigation. It came out that these senators had been beneficiaries of $1.3 million (collective total) in campaign contributions from Keating.
This allegation set off a series of investigations by the California government, the United States Department of Justice, and the Senate Ethics Committee. The ethics committee's investigation focused on five senators: Alan Cranston (D-CA); Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ); John Glenn (D-OH); John McCain (R-AZ); and Donald W. Riegle, Jr. (D-MI), who became known as the Keating Five.
Months of testimony revealed that all five senators acted improperly the senators said they were following the status quo of campaign funding practices. In August 1991, the committee concluded that Cranston, DeConcini, and Riegle's conduct constituted interference with the FHLBB's enforcement efforts and that they had done so on behalf of Charles Keating. The committee recommended censure for Cranston and criticized the other four for "questionable conduct."
Comment: Newsweek should consider that McCain is in the early stages of Alzheimers. The way his wife hovers and looks when he is speaking reminds me of Nancy Reagan sam behavior for her husband. We all know how that ended.
David Buseck, Cambridge ,Ohio
Comment: Naaaaah! it's Cindy's cooking, personal encounters with cacti or excessive exposure to the AZ sun .......maybe all of them! But, for sure, he lost his principles on Route 66!!
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Comment: Last June I retired after spending a lifetime teaching in innercity schools, I back up NY gal 100%. Tell young people the truth. Give them all the information they need, and have faith that they'll make right decisions. In my class room and also in the school newspaper (I was the adviser), the subject of sex occasionally came up. Armed with knowledge and truth, my students always handled such topics with maturity and intelligence that belie the typical stereotype of the inner city high school student. (Consider that when talking about Obama.) Actually, stats tend to bear me out - That students with the right information are more likely to delay sexual activity than students who do not.
I really appreciated this article. McCain is not giving America straight talk. The biggest straight talker is ironically Obama who accurately reflected what people told him.(And when I consider what is happening to my students and their future and what sort of world we are creating for them, bitterness, anger and frustration are rather tactufl understatements about my true feelings.) And look what happened. McCain can claim to be for the common man - but everything he does contradicts that impression. He can claim he wants to reach out to black voters - when in fact the Republican party is engaged in a concetrated effort to suppress both the African-American and Latino vote. McCain can attack Obama for associating with Rev. Wrgiht, while he goes out and courts the vote of ignorant homophobic evangelical preachers like James Dobson and Jim MaGee. Flip-flip isn't the word for it. He simply in engaged in false advertising. Regardless of who wins the Democratic primary, I will vote for him or her over McCain any day of the week
Comment: Hmmm, suspicions confirmed on one of the reasons that inner-city schools are such a mess.
Comment: If you're not pro-choice fine, but as a candidate I'd appreciate them taking a pro-information stance to PREVENT unwanted pregnancies and get rid of this abstinence only education garbage. Teen pregnancies have gone up since Bush got behind the "cover your kids eyes and ears and they won't notice their raging teenage hormones" stance. People have sex whether you like it or not and whether you tell them to wait or not...how about teaching people how to do it safely and having more access to resources. Being scared of teens becoming sexually active won't stop them from doing what they want to do....make it easy for them to get birth control and condoms which have a 99.99% success rate when USED PROPERLY (there's that education about sexual health). Support INFORMATION if you're not pro-choice, please candidates! Start making some sense to solve a problem if you're against it!
Comment: Chicago there is a man that is a senator from your state, and I tell you have you heard rumors about him ? Have you heard rumors about his run for President? And I say Hillary can take her states and gain momentum, but I will be the one who rules from on high. McCain is aged, but watch the youthfulness of his heart strike many that will say he has chosen a Vice President that we highly respect. But many will say does he know enough about the economy? I say to this, I am sending the economy to a point in time where they will say everything has been turned upside down, says the Lord.
http://jcudell.blogspot.com/
Comment: Does the author really expect us to believe that of Obama, Clinton, and McCain, it's McCain who is most deserving of blame for not being forthright on where he stands? That McCain is the person who needs to be singled out for having inconsistent principles? It takes quite a huge leap of faith from a writer who clearly has a deep bias to argue that Americans have "morphed" Obama and Clinton into something they're not solely based on the events of the last two weeks (Obama's "bitter" comments and Clinton drinking a shot with the boys). Clinton's reputation for pandering to public sentiment in order to win elections is in my opinion, notorious and self-evident. As for Obama, I have to agree with a comment I read in Slate yesterday: "after so many months of promising hard truths, Obama doesn't really force people to accept any." Not to mention his empty record in either the Illinois or US Senate of any noteworthy fighting for principle. See also WSanto's post @ 5:36PM on 4/20 for more Obama problems. John McCain isn't perfect, but how can you expect anyone to take you seriously when you argue that of the three, he's the one we have to meet with distrust?
Comment: Well said Overlord, and right on the money. Only in the strange world of Newsweak can writers such as Quindlan and Clift make such outrageous claims with a straight face. And the MSM continues to wonder why they are losing readership/viewership? They inhabit a world totally not in synch with the real thing...
Comment: Right, I agree flip-flopping is not the issue, but rather McCain's voiting record, and that's scary! Considering the era that McCain grew up in, the 40's & 50's., his values reflect that women should not work but be full time mothers. I fear for this country 's & women's future if McCain becomes president.
Comment: Right, I agree flip-flopping is not the issue, but rather McCain's voiting record, and that's scary! Considering the era that McCain grew up in, the 40's & 50's., his values reflect that women should not work but be full time mothers. I fear for this country 's & women's future if McCain becomes president.
Comment: Right, I agree flip-flopping is not the issue, but rather McCain's voiting record, and that's scary! Considering the era that McCain grew up in, the 40's & 50's., his values reflect that women should not work but be full time mothers. I fear for this country 's & women's future if McCain becomes president.
Comment: Right, I agree flip-flopping is not the issue, but rather McCain's voiting record, and that's scary! Considering the era that McCain grew up in, the 40's & 50's., his values reflect that women should not work but be full time mothers. I fear for this country 's & women's future if McCain becomes president.
Comment: Right, I agree flip-flopping is not the issue, but rather McCain's voiting record, and that's scary! Considering the era that McCain grew up in, the 40's & 50's., his values reflect that women should not work but be full time mothers. I fear for this country 's & women's future if McCain becomes president.
Comment: Right, I agree flip-flopping is not the issue, but rather McCain's voiting record, and that's scary! Considering the era that McCain grew up in, the 40's & 50's., his values reflect that women should not work but be full time mothers. I fear for this country 's & women's future if McCain becomes president.
Comment: Right, I agree flip-flopping is not the issue, but rather McCain's voiting record, and that's scary! Considering the era that McCain grew up in, the 40's & 50's., his values reflect that women should not work but be full time mothers. I fear for this country 's & women's future if McCain becomes president.
Comment: Thanks, Ann Quindlen, you just sealed it for me. A 'zero' rating from Planned Parenthood is a badge of honor. McCain has my campaign contribution and my vote come November.
Comment: McCain is a better flip-flopper than John Kerry ever thought of being.
Comment: John McCain has rolled over on so many issues in this campaign to appear more conservative than he is it is embarrasing!
Comment: See: http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15227.html
Flip-flop list (n=27):
* McCain???s first mortgage plan assumed homeowners in foreclosure not be ???rewarded??? for acting ???irresponsibly.??? His second opposed this.
* McCain vowed to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term, then denounced.
* In Mar 2008, McCain denounced his own campaign???s Social Security policy.
* In Feb 2008, McCain reversed course on waterboarding.
* In Nov 2007, McCain reversed: ???nature of the society in Iraq??? and ???religious aspects??? means that US ???eventually withdraws.??? Two months later, McCain reversed back: U.S. troops in Iraq for 100 years.
* McCain championed the Law of the Sea convention that he opposes.
* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act that he opposes.
* McCain announced that he would vote against his own immigration policy.
* McCain in Feb 2008: ???No new taxes.??? Two weeks later: ???I???m not making a ???read my lips??? statement, in that I will not raise taxes.???
* McCain considered and not considered joining John Kerry???s Democratic ticket in 2004.
* In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, hiring Philip Morris??? former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.
* In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal donors then told far-right groups that he opposes his measure.
* McCain before the war, ???We will win this conflict??? easily.??? Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that it was ???probably going to be long and hard and tough.???
* McCain said was the ???greatest critic??? of Iraq policy. Dec 2003: ???a mission accomplished.??? Mar 2004: ???I???m confident we???re on the right course.??? Dec 2005: ???Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.???
* McCain said would not repeal of Roe v. Wade then said the opposite.
* McCain said gay marriage should be allowed and then opposed it.
* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as ???an agent of intolerance??? in 2002, but cozied up to him.
* In 2005, he opposed tax cuts ???too tilted to the wealthy.??? By 2007, he denied this, and insisted he opposed the cuts.
* In 2000, McCain accused the Wylys of being corrupt, spending ???dirty money??? to help Bush, filing a complaint and lashing out publicly. In April, McCain reached to the Wylys.
* McCain supported the McCain campaign-finance reform. In June 2007, he abandoned it.
* McCain opposed the MLK holiday before he supported it.
* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he???s pro-ethanol.
* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
* McCain believed Henry Kissinger ???would taint the image of the ???Straight Talk Express.?????? Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
* McCai
Comment: Do you really think anyone reads this nonsense? It is an obvious cut and paste job and not even a very good one at that. How about you think for yourself for a change?
And really, we don't even need to see it once, much less multiple times. Geez...
Comment: See: http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15227.html
Flip-flop list (n=27):
* McCain???s first mortgage plan assumed homeowners in foreclosure not be ???rewarded??? for acting ???irresponsibly.??? His second opposed this.
* McCain vowed to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term, then denounced.
* In Mar 2008, McCain denounced his own campaign???s Social Security policy.
* In Feb 2008, McCain reversed course on waterboarding.
* In Nov 2007, McCain reversed: ???nature of the society in Iraq??? and ???religious aspects??? means that US ???eventually withdraws.??? Two months later, McCain reversed back: U.S. troops in Iraq for 100 years.
* McCain championed the Law of the Sea convention that he opposes.
* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act that he opposes.
* McCain announced that he would vote against his own immigration policy.
* McCain in Feb 2008: ???No new taxes.??? Two weeks later: ???I???m not making a ???read my lips??? statement, in that I will not raise taxes.???
* McCain considered and not considered joining John Kerry???s Democratic ticket in 2004.
* In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, hiring Philip Morris??? former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.
* In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal donors then told far-right groups that he opposes his measure.
* McCain before the war, ???We will win this conflict??? easily.??? Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that it was ???probably going to be long and hard and tough.???
* McCain said was the ???greatest critic??? of Iraq policy. Dec 2003: ???a mission accomplished.??? Mar 2004: ???I???m confident we???re on the right course.??? Dec 2005: ???Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.???
* McCain said would not repeal of Roe v. Wade then said the opposite.
* McCain said gay marriage should be allowed and then opposed it.
* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as ???an agent of intolerance??? in 2002, but cozied up to him.
* In 2005, he opposed tax cuts ???too tilted to the wealthy.??? By 2007, he denied this, and insisted he opposed the cuts.
* In 2000, McCain accused the Wylys of being corrupt, spending ???dirty money??? to help Bush, filing a complaint and lashing out publicly. In April, McCain reached to the Wylys.
* McCain supported the McCain campaign-finance reform. In June 2007, he abandoned it.
* McCain opposed the MLK holiday before he supported it.
* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he???s pro-ethanol.
* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
* McCain believed Henry Kissinger ???would taint the image of the ???Straight Talk Express.?????? Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
* McCai
Comment: See: http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15227.html
Flip-flop list (n=27):
* McCain???s first mortgage plan assumed homeowners in foreclosure not be ???rewarded??? for acting ???irresponsibly.??? His second opposed this.
* McCain vowed to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term, then denounced.
* In Mar 2008, McCain denounced his own campaign???s Social Security policy.
* In Feb 2008, McCain reversed course on waterboarding.
* In Nov 2007, McCain reversed: ???nature of the society in Iraq??? and ???religious aspects??? means that US ???eventually withdraws.??? Two months later, McCain reversed back: U.S. troops in Iraq for 100 years.
* McCain championed the Law of the Sea convention that he opposes.
* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act that he opposes.
* McCain announced that he would vote against his own immigration policy.
* McCain in Feb 2008: ???No new taxes.??? Two weeks later: ???I???m not making a ???read my lips??? statement, in that I will not raise taxes.???
* McCain considered and not considered joining John Kerry???s Democratic ticket in 2004.
* In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, hiring Philip Morris??? former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.
* In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal donors then told far-right groups that he opposes his measure.
* McCain before the war, ???We will win this conflict??? easily.??? Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that it was ???probably going to be long and hard and tough.???
* McCain said was the ???greatest critic??? of Iraq policy. Dec 2003: ???a mission accomplished.??? Mar 2004: ???I???m confident we???re on the right course.??? Dec 2005: ???Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course.???
* McCain said would not repeal of Roe v. Wade then said the opposite.
* McCain said gay marriage should be allowed and then opposed it.
* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as ???an agent of intolerance??? in 2002, but cozied up to him.
* In 2005, he opposed tax cuts ???too tilted to the wealthy.??? By 2007, he denied this, and insisted he opposed the cuts.
* In 2000, McCain accused the Wylys of being corrupt, spending ???dirty money??? to help Bush, filing a complaint and lashing out publicly. In April, McCain reached to the Wylys.
* McCain supported the McCain campaign-finance reform. In June 2007, he abandoned it.
* McCain opposed the MLK holiday before he supported it.
* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he???s pro-ethanol.
* McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
* McCain believed Henry Kissinger ???would taint the image of the ???Straight Talk Express.?????? Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
* McCai
Comment: Right, because there is actually EVIDENCE supporting the whole abortion illegal -> dangerous abortions -> thousands of women dying argument. If Ms. Quindlen knew anything about the history of abortion apart from the propaganda by feminist and abortionist opportunists (cf. Bernard Nathanson: "we made it all up"), she would know that more women have in fact died as a result of legalizing abortion.
Comment: This is nonsense.
Comment: Miss Overrated and Underwhelming Quindlen hasn't been doing her research on John McClain. He has been conistently pro-life and for smaller government.
But this is a free country Annie. You can vote for Hillary and self-righteously pat yourself on the back.
Comment: this is a pathetic article, obviously an obama kool aid drinker, john mc cain has more integrity in his little finger than obama, Liberal writers like quindlen are what is wrong with this election. they can't just tell the truth, they distort it to fit their agenda
Comment: Barack and Hillary have been spinning their position from hither to tither depending on which state is next on the blocks. Barack was caught in a lie when he was telling the People of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Canadian government that he was just playing politics with the issue and the NAFTA was safe. He is lying about his position on guns and immigration to the the small-minded, beer-guzzling people of Pennsylvania who cling to these issues because they can't understand (or don't want to) their economic distress. He's lying about being above the tit-for-tat politics of Washington while his campaign makes conference calls to the media outlets about sniper fire in Bosnia. He has been famously dishonest about Mcain's position on Iraq by exaggerating his statement about keepin a troop presence in Iraq. Don't even get me started on the Clintons and honesty.
Comment: Barack and Hillary have been spinning their position from hither to tither depending on which state is next on the blocks. Barack was caught in a lie when he was telling the People of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Canadian government that he was just playing politics with the issue and the NAFTA was safe. He is lying about his position on guns and immigration to the the small-minded, beer-guzzling people of Pennsylvania who cling to these issues because they can't understand (or don't want to) their economic distress. He's lying about being above the tit-for-tat politics of Washington while his campaign makes conference calls to the media outlets about sniper fire in Bosnia. He has been famously dishonest about Mcain's position on Iraq by exaggerating his statement about keepin a troop presence in Iraq. Don't even get me started on the Clintons and honesty.
Comment: Barack and Hillary have been spinning their position from hither to tither depending on which state is next on the blocks. Barack was caught in a lie when he was telling the People of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Canadian government that he was just playing politics with the issue and the NAFTA was safe. He is lying about his position on guns and immigration to the the small-minded, beer-guzzling people of Pennsylvania who cling to these issues because they can't understand (or don't want to) their economic distress. He's lying about being above the tit-for-tat politics of Washington while his campaign makes conference calls to the media outlets about sniper fire in Bosnia. He has been famously dishonest about Mcain's position on Iraq by exaggerating his statement about keepin a troop presence in Iraq. Don't even get me started on the Clintons and honesty.
Comment: Barack and Hillary have been spinning their position from hither to tither depending on which state is next on the blocks. Barack was caught in a lie when he was telling the People of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Canadian government that he was just playing politics with the issue and the NAFTA was safe. He is lying about his position on guns and immigration to the the small-minded, beer-guzzling people of Pennsylvania who cling to these issues because they can't understand (or don't want to) their economic distress. He's lying about being above the tit-for-tat politics of Washington while his campaign makes conference calls to the media outlets about sniper fire in Bosnia. He has been famously dishonest about Mcain's position on Iraq by exaggerating his statement about keepin a troop presence in Iraq. Don't even get me started on the Clintons and honesty.
Comment: Barack and Hillary have been spinning their position from hither to tither depending on which state is next on the blocks. Barack was caught in a lie when he was telling the People of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Canadian government that he was just playing politics with the issue and the NAFTA was safe. He is lying about his position on guns and immigration to the the small-minded, beer-guzzling people of Pennsylvania who cling to these issues because they can't understand (or don't want to) their economic distress. He's lying about being above the tit-for-tat politics of Washington while his campaign makes conference calls to the media outlets about sniper fire in Bosnia. He has been famously dishonest about Mcain's position on Iraq by exaggerating his statement about keepin a troop presence in Iraq. Don't even get me started on the Clintons and honesty.
Comment: Barack and Hillary have been spinning their position from hither to tither depending on which state is next on the blocks. Barack was caught in a lie when he was telling the People of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Canadian government that he was just playing politics with the issue and the NAFTA was safe. He is lying about his position on guns and immigration to the the small-minded, beer-guzzling people of Pennsylvania who cling to these issues because they can't understand (or don't want to) their economic distress. He's lying about being above the tit-for-tat politics of Washington while his campaign makes conference calls to the media outlets about sniper fire in Bosnia. He has been famously dishonest about Mcain's position on Iraq by exaggerating his statement about keepin a troop presence in Iraq. Don't even get me started on the Clintons and honesty.
Comment: Barack and Hillary have been spinning their position from hither to tither depending on which state is next on the blocks. Barack was caught in a lie when he was telling the People of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Canadian government that he was just playing politics with the issue and the NAFTA was safe. He is lying about his position on guns and immigration to the the small-minded, beer-guzzling people of Pennsylvania who cling to these issues because they can't understand (or don't want to) their economic distress. He's lying about being above the tit-for-tat politics of Washington while his campaign makes conference calls to the media outlets about sniper fire in Bosnia. He has been famously dishonest about Mcain's position on Iraq by exaggerating his statement about keepin a troop presence in Iraq. Don't even get me started on the Clintons and honesty.
Comment: Barack and Hillary have been spinning their position from hither to tither depending on which state is next on the blocks. Barack was caught in a lie when he was telling the People of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Canadian government that he was just playing politics with the issue and the NAFTA was safe. He is lying about his position on guns and immigration to the the small-minded, beer-guzzling people of Pennsylvania who cling to these issues because they can't understand (or don't want to) their economic distress. He's lying about being above the tit-for-tat politics of Washington while his campaign makes conference calls to the media outlets about sniper fire in Bosnia. He has been famously dishonest about Mcain's position on Iraq by exaggerating his statement about keepin a troop presence in Iraq. Don't even get me started on the Clintons and honesty.
Comment: Barack and Hillary have been spinning their position from hither to tither depending on which state is next on the blocks. Barack was caught in a lie when he was telling the People of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Canadian government that he was just playing politics with the issue and the NAFTA was safe. He is lying about his position on guns and immigration to the the small-minded, beer-guzzling people of Pennsylvania who cling to these issues because they can't understand (or don't want to) their economic distress. He's lying about being above the tit-for-tat politics of Washington while his campaign makes conference calls to the media outlets about sniper fire in Bosnia. He has been famously dishonest about Mcain's position on Iraq by exaggerating his statement about keepin a troop presence in Iraq. Don't even get me started on the Clintons and honesty.
Comment: as if Barack and Hillary haven't been spinning their opinions and positions from hither to tither depending on which state votes next. Barack was caught in a lie when he told the people of Ohio that he would repeal NAFTA then told the Candian government he was only playing politics and not to worry. He's lying this month with his position on guns and immigration because he knows that the small-minded Pennsylvanians cling to these issues because they can't or don't want to understand their economic status. He's been famously dishonest about Mcain's positions on the Iraq war and his relationship to Bush and Bush's policies. About Hillary and the truth--don't get me started.
Comment: I support Hillary. If Obama wins, I'm voting for McCain.
Comment: I am sick sick sick of idiots trying to steal the women's vote with these abortion threats. I'm a female in my 20s, and I don't care much about a president's views on abortion. The president has little to do with whether abortion is legal. For anything to happen, first a spot would have to open up on the supreme court. Then he'd have to appoint someone who's opposed to abortion to fill a pro-choice justice's spot. Then that justice would have to be willing to overturn Casey/Roe v. Wade precedent. Then that justice would have to get a majority to agree to that. If they overturn the Roe line of cases, guess what happens. It goes back to the states, and abortion is legal in many states anyway.
Quit threatening women with this abortion crap. I care much more about a president's views on other issues, you damn puppet.
Comment: I am sick sick sick of idiots trying to steal the women's vote with these abortion threats. I'm a female in my 20s, and I don't care much about a president's views on abortion. The president has little to do with whether abortion is legal. For anything to happen, first a spot would have to open up on the supreme court. Then he'd have to appoint someone who's opposed to abortion to fill a pro-choice justice's spot. Then that justice would have to be willing to overturn Casey/Roe v. Wade precedent. Then that justice would have to get a majority to agree to that. If they overturn the Roe line of cases, guess what happens. It goes back to the states, and abortion is legal in many states anyway.
Quit threatening women with this abortion crap. I care much more about a president's views on other issues, you damn puppet.
Comment: I am sick sick sick of idiots trying to steal the women's vote with these abortion threats. I'm a female in my 20s, and I don't care much about a president's views on abortion. The president has little to do with whether abortion is legal. For anything to happen, first a spot would have to open up on the supreme court. Then he'd have to appoint someone who's opposed to abortion to fill a pro-choice justice's spot. Then that justice would have to be willing to overturn Casey/Roe v. Wade precedent. Then that justice would have to get a majority to agree to that. If they overturn the Roe line of cases, guess what happens. It goes back to the states, and abortion is legal in many states anyway.
Quit threatening women with this abortion crap. I care much more about a president's views on other issues, you damn puppet.
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He also thinks that guns are dangerous in the wrong hands, well that's common sense. I think we can all agree that guns in Uncle Ed's closet are OK, but that when "Joe Scumbag" breaks into Uncle Ed's house and steals those guns they become a whole different mess.
But he agrees that Uncle Joe has a right, granted by the constitution, to have those guns in his closet. So gun control laws will have to be dealt with differently, because it isn't fair or constitutional to limit Uncle ed from owning a gun just so the Joe Scumbag can't steal them.
Once again, clear cut, no, but at least he isn't limiting someone's rights just to satisfy someone else.
I know we're not used to it, and we the American public will have to wake up and start actually thinking about issues..and their consequences. This won't be easy at first, since we're used to being spoon fed simple answers to complex questions, but I have great faith in the American public, we may disagree, but in the end we are capable of understanding that America is bigger than you, it's bigger than me, and that it's bigger than just this generation. The basic rights of all of us, to choices, to guns, to happines, must be safeguarded not only for ourselves and our opinions of today, but for our future and the decisions this country and its citizens will face about issues we can't even imagine yet..
Comment: Old Politics vs. New Politics.
Seriously.
Old fashioned politicians were free to change their positions when they felt like it for personal or political gain. GOTCHA moments were rare and the exception rather than constant and pervasive. Hillary Clinton and John McCain are both still living in some strange old world where WE THE PEOPLE will never find out what they did or said or how they voted when the chips were down. That world is dead. Welcome to the instant internet, You-Tube, cell phones with audio and video capture generation. No politician can comfortably lie to the public anymore. We will all know in a matter of days if they do.
This leaves them in the strange and uncomfortable position of having politics shift from a game of Battleship (where you cannot see your opponents moves) to a game of chess (where you can clearly see what your opponent is trying to do).
Chess, needless to say, is a much more complex game.
On the political front this means that politician's statements of position are going to of necessity become more candid and honest. This is a very good thing for the American public, which VERY tired of being lied to.
And Obama is, so far, the only one of the candidates who "gets it." Yes his statements are more nuanced, more complex, but then face it, the issues are pretty complex and nuanced. Simple black and white, yes and no answers usually ill-serve the public interest. And yet we tend to see anything less definitive as "waffling".
But the President of the United States has to represent ALL OF US. Pro-life, and pro-choice, gun-toting, and gun-shy, urban and rural, liberals and conservatives, rich and poor, young and old.
To be as fair as possible to everyone we need someone who can compromise between all of those diverse interests.
And this is just a personal feeling of mine, but let's face it, there are 10% of Americans who are CONSERVATIVE and there are probably about 10% of Americans who are LIBERAL, capital letters and all.
But the rest of us( That would be 80%) are either right leaning or left leaning MODERATES.
I for one am really tired of having to choose a president who will only represent the interests of some 10% extreme of our country. I think Obama's stance on abortion is admirable. He isn't saying, you're evil if you don't agree with me. He's saying I don't know for sure, but let's err on the side of caution. If abortion is legal YOU don't have to have one if you so choose, but if it's illegal YOU can't have one if you so choose.
Better to leave the decision to the individual whom it will impact than restrict people's rights overall.
This decision doesn't satisfy everyone, but it is the least invasive of any individual's personal rights.
Comment: The abortion issue, the first you raised, is a tough one in American politics. It's easy to just say that one is pro-choice, as that is how the majority feels. Obama's stance is interesting - he is very pro-choice, but admitted at the "faith conference" that he honestly doesn't know whether or not life begins at conception. Very candid. So he is comfortable stating his popular pro-choice stance, and indifferent to the fact that tens of millions of , according to his own words, possibly human beings, being killed every year. Politically helpful. Morally? If he honestly doesn't know, and doesn't care to err on the side of caution, monstrous.
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I lived in Philly for years, and my friends there (we are all Republicans) have crossed over and are voting for Obama. I visited Chestnut Hill last month, and everyone in this very conservative part of Philadelphia was talking about how Obama is the best candidate. It doesn't surprise me at all that he's pulling ahead of Clinton. She's looking increasingly desperate and shrewish. And Obama has gotten 90 superdelgates since February, while she has only gotten 5. Some of Obama's superdelegate endorsements include long-time Clinton supporters like Gov. Richardson and Robert Reich, a Clinton cabinet member. Hillary keeps saying that if she takes this all the way to the convention, the superdelegates will be on her side and give her the nomination. It has become obvious that this is not going to happen, since the superdelgates are deserting her in droves and even the ones who were her close allies are jumping ship. Even if she wins Pennsylvania, she really doesn't have a chance. It is way past time for her to hang up her boxing gloves. She's starting to look delusionally self-obsessed.
And as for McCain, I would like to like him, but I just don't have it in me, when the only two candidates with good Christian morals are Huckabee and Obama. Not to mention that McCain, by his own admission, knows nothing about the economy, our current number one problem in America, a problem caused, I might add, by G.W. Bush knowing nothing about the economy. Ahem.
I'm a Republican, but I'm not suicidal. And I love my country much more than I love my party.
Comment: nina your an idiot
Comment: You're a Republican, and I'm Pope Benedict. Your entire post was laughable!
Comment: The abortion issue, the first you raised, is a tough one in American politics. It's easy to just say that one is pro-choice, as that is how the majority feels. Obama's stance is interesting - he is very pro-choice, but admitted at the "faith conference" that he honestly doesn't know whether or not life begins at conception. Very candid. So he is comfortable stating his popular pro-choice stance, and indifferent to the fact that tens of millions of , according to his own words, possibly human beings, being killed every year. Politically helpful. Morally? If he honestly doesn't know, and doesn't care to err on the side of caution, monstrous.
Comment: The abortion issue, the first you raised, is a tough one in American politics. It's easy to just say that one is pro-choice, as that is how the majority feels. Obama's stance is interesting - he is very pro-choice, but admitted at the "faith conference" that he honestly doesn't know whether or not life begins at conception. Very candid. So he is comfortable stating his popular pro-choice stance, and indifferent to the fact that tens of millions of , according to his own words, possibly human beings, being killed every year. Politically helpful. Morally? If he honestly doesn't know, and doesn't care to err on the side of caution, monstrous.
Comment: The abortion issue, the first you raised, is a tough one in American politics. It's easy to just say that one is pro-choice, as that is how the majority feels. Obama's stance is interesting - he is very pro-choice, but admitted at the "faith conference" that he honestly doesn't know whether or not life begins at conception. Very candid. So he is comfortable stating his popular pro-choice stance, and indifferent to the fact that tens of millions of , according to his own words, possibly human beings, being killed every year. Politically helpful. Morally? If he honestly doesn't know, and doesn't care to err on the side of caution, monstrous.
Comment: The abortion issue, the first you raised, is a tough one in American politics. It's easy to just say that one is pro-choice, as that is how the majority feels. Obama's stance is interesting - he is very pro-choice, but admitted at the "faith conference" that he honestly doesn't know whether or not life begins at conception. Very candid. So he is comfortable stating his popular pro-choice stance, and indifferent to the fact that tens of millions of , according to his own words, possibly human beings, being killed every year. Politically helpful. Morally? If he honestly doesn't know, and doesn't care to err on the side of caution, monstrous.
Comment: If you want a distillation of the facts, always tune in on Anna Quindlen.
Comment: Anna Quindlen is the worst kind of left-wing hack; I know what she's going to write before she does, it's all so predictable. But perhaps all you left-wingers need constant re-affirmation of your looney-tunes views...
Comment: Right On.....If you really want to know what's going on, keep in touch with Anna Quindlen!
Comment: Another typical Newsweek hit piece on the Republican candidate. If McCain hadn't been nominated, then it would be a similar story with the names changed.
How predictable and boring...c'mon, Ann you can do better than this. Or maybe you and Eleanor Clift just recycle the same story ideas continuously over the office water cooler?
Comment: Jussst another Republican who can't confront the truth!
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